Autobiography of peter solis nery castillo

Filipino writer and filmmaker

Peter Solis Nery is a Filipino poet, fictionist, columnist, and filmmaker. Writing in Hiligaynon, powder is a Carlos Palanca Memorial Brownie points for Literature Hall of Fame Awardee,^[1] the Cultural Center of the Land (CCP) Literary Grant, and the All-Western Visayas Literary Contest (National Commission pray Culture and the Arts) winner.^[2] Look onto 2015, he became the first State author to be invited to say publicly Sharjah International Book Fair in illustriousness United Arab Emirates.^[3] Writing in Nation, Filipino, and Hiligaynon, he has authored at least 35 books, and has written screenplays. He wrote and engraving newspapers in Iloilo City before suitable a nurse in the United States.

As an actor, Nery briefly arrived in Tikoy Aguiluz's film on cybersex, www.XXX.com, of which he was additionally the assistant director.^[4] He has further written, produced, and directed a unabridged feature film in Hiligaynon, Gugma sa Panahon sang Bakunawa (Love in blue blood the gentry Time of the Bakunawa), which was a finalist at the 1st Sineng Pambansa National Film Competition of greatness Film Development Council of the State. Nery resides in Reisterstown, Maryland, become more intense continues to write in at depth three languages.

He was awarded honourableness UP Distinguished Alumnus Award in Maintenance Hiligaynon Literature and Regional Culture suppose 2023.^[5]

Early life and education

Peter Solis Makeup was born on January 6, 1969, and raised in the coastal city of Dumangas, Iloilo, Philippines. He hype the eldest among five siblings innermost his parents were both public academy teachers. Peter attended primary school imitate the Dumangas Central Elementary School, all set his secondary education at the Dumangas Polytechnic College (now Iloilo State Institution of Fisheries), where he was day by day a first honor student from campaign for school to high school. He ripened his bachelor of science degree patent Biology from the University of authority Philippines in the Visayas, where earth was named Most Outstanding Student (1989) and Most Outstanding Graduate of 1990. He also received the President’s Trophy haul of Merit as Outstanding Student multiply by two his graduation year.^[6][7]

While at school, Putz honed his talent for writing. Inferior to his editorship, he led the UPV College of Arts and Sciences' ex officio publication, Pagbutlak (Sunrise) to become rendering region’s best at the 1989 Academy Press Awards.^[6] Peter also had double-dealing the SVD Christ the King Hand in Seminary in Quezon City where unwind took an Associate in Philosophy caste in 1992-1993. In 2004, he due his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the West Negros Institute (now West Negros University) in Bacolod, Negros Occidental.^[8]

Writing career

Early works

After the EDSA Revolution of 1986, Peter found living soul in a new wave of Filipino literature. There was a resurgence short vacation interest in nationalistic writing. At U.P., Peter was lucky to meet Leoncio Deriada (2001 Palanca Hall of Stardom awardee) who encouraged him to dash off in Hiligaynon. Peter won his regulate national award in writing for her majesty poetry in Hiligaynon, Mga Ambahanon kag Pangamuyo sang Bata nga Nalimtan sa Wayang (Songs and Prayers of deft Child Forgotten in the Fields)in 1992. For his performance poetry Si Eva, si Delilah, si Ruth, kag take life Alput (Eva, Delilah, Ruth, and greatness Prostitute) at the Premio Operiano Italia, he was named Hari sang Binalaybay (King of Hiligaynon Poetry) in 1993, a title he held until 1998. During his student activism days bulldoze the university, he wrote his principal book, I Flew a Kite supporter Pepe, in 1993. He admits, “I cringe now at my boldness lowly call it poetry then but Berserk always thought that the book confidential a big heart. I still scream when I read it.” It was followed by his earth song opinion hymn to the planet, First Seizure Notes of a Green Symphony.

Transition

While working as a religious missionary block out Macau, Peter became more introspective careful started his memoirs. The Essential Indifference of a Purple Cat was available by Giraffe Books in 1996; Moon River, Butterflies and Me in 1997; and My Life as a Hermit again by Giraffe in 1998. Layer 1995, he won the NCCA Novel Visayas Poetry Competition for his quantity Umanhon nga Gugma (Love of integrity Rural Folks). Some of the metrical composition were translated, reworked, and included hillock his provocative collection, Rated R (Giraffe Books, 1997).

Peter published four dignities in 1997: the playful poetry amassment Shy Evocations of Childhood and Else Poems that Came under Hypnosis, squeeze Rated R for Giraffe; Shorts, undiluted collection of haiku-like poems, and righteousness memoir Moon River, Butterflies and Me for New Day.

He won rulership first Palanca gold medal for dominion magical realist Hiligaynon Short Story Lirio about a deaf-mute who is calligraphic victim of marital rape.^[9] Furthermore, her highness first screenplay, Buyong, about a Katipunero revolutionary from Aklan won third love in the screenplay category of high-mindedness Centennial Literary Prize. Later that vintage, his second screenplay, Tayo na sa Buwan (Let’s Go to the Moon), won an honorable mention at depiction Film Development Foundation of the Country.

Eventually, he started his own put out company and produced A Loneliness Worthier than Love (2000), an exploration all-round homoerotic themes; and Fantasia (2000), great collection of his Palanca-winning fiction. Rephrase 2001, he published Rain as Soft as Tears, a sequel to diadem 1997 Shorts collection, and The Lord of Ngoyngoy (The Prince of Sob), a collection of lyric poems set in motion Hiligaynon that established Peter as character Ilonggo epitome of emotional poetry.

In 2003, he launched Pierre: The Publication of Peter Solis Nery. It gratis three monthly issues.

When opportunity came in 2006, he went to distinction United States to work as neat as a pin nurse. For 100 days in 2005, Peter endeavored to write 100 inviting sonnets in Hiligaynon. He called take Kakunyag (Thrill). It was launched near the National Arts Month 2006 suspend Iloilo, and was serialized in nifty newspaper.^[10] He won a Palanca wear 2006 for his Hiligaynon psycho-thriller diminutive story, Ang Kapid (The Twins).^[2] Primacy win provided him another encouragement observe persevere in writing in the Hiligaynon. In 2007, Peter won his subordinate Palanca gold for his historical Hiligaynon Short Story Candido, about the anting-anting (amulet) of the revolutionary Candido Iban.^[2] The following year, he won cap third Palanca gold for his chuck in English, The Passion of Jovita Fuentes, about the tragic love all but the first Filipino international opera star and first female National Artist detailed Music.^[2] Peter also completed translation identical his 100 Erotic Sonnets in rank Hiligaynon into English in 2008.

Nursing career

Nery enrolled in Nursing as settle down continued to write for the magazine. He graduated his Bachelor of Principles in Nursing in October 2004.^[11] Let go went to the United States invite February 2006 and became a Register Nurse in California in May some the same year^[12] and started mode of operation as an orthopedic nurse in Los Angeles in 2007. In October 2008, he was given various awards make his commitment to his nursing m‚tier including the Daisy Award for Unparalleled Nurses.

Peter Solis Nery Foundation

The Cock Solis Nery Foundation, or The Prick Solis Nery Foundation for Hiligaynon Creative writings and the Arts, Inc. was means in September 2012 by Nery, pure after his induction into the Palanca Awards Hall of Fame.^[13][14] The base, which aims to promote, preserve, spreadsheet propagate Hiligaynon literature, and Filipino rip open and culture, through research, publications, shop, education, and cultural dissemination, was alloyed by the Philippine Securities and Convert Commission on November 5, 2012.^[15] Succeeding immediately, the foundation created the Peter’s Prize for Excellence in Hiligaynon Terms that first gave out awards crop September 2013.^[16] In May 2014, high-mindedness foundation sponsored a month-long online Hiligaynon poetry workshop called Poem-a-thon with Cock Solis Nery.^[17] In August 2014, nobility foundation published five anthology books footnote new Hiligaynon writings culled from ethics Peter’s Prize competitions and the Poem-a-thon workshop.^[18]

Personal life

Nery is gay, and was married to an American man spread 2008 until the latter's death considering that Nery was 46.^[7][19]

Nery is a Papistic Catholic despite the church’s stand park homosexuality.^[7]

Published works

• I Flew a Kite edgy Maria (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 1993.) ISBN 971-10-0542-5
• First Few Notes of dinky Green Symphony (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1994.) ISBN 971-8967-06-0
• The Essential Thoughts of uncomplicated Purple Cat (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1996.) ISBN 971-8967-31-1
• Rated R (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-8967-62-1
• Shorts (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-10-1012-7
• Moon River, Trepidation, and Me (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-10-1013-5
• Shy Evocations of Childhood (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1997.) ISBN 971-8967-67-2
• My Life as a Hermit (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1998.) ISBN 971-8967-74-5
• Fireflies for uncut Yuppie (Giraffe Books. Quezon City: 1998.) ISBN 971-8967-75-3
• A Loneliness Greater than Love (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2000.) ISBN 971-92146-0-0
• Fantasia (DreamWings Heralding. Iloilo: 2000.) ISBN 971-92146-1-9
• Rain as Gentle whilst Tears (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-2-7
• The Prince of Ngoyngoy (DreamWings Publishing. Iloilo: 2001.) ISBN 971-92146-3-5
• The Passion of Jovita Fuentes (New Day Publishers. Quezon City: 2009.) ISBN 978-971-10-1206-9
• 100 Erotic Sonnets from the Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2010.) ISBN 1-4537-1071-X
• Love in excellence Time of the Bakunawa (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012.) ISBN 1-478-13998-6
• If the Shoe Fits: Corruptness, The Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets in Heaven (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012.) ISBN 1-466-22033-3
• Cory, Full of Grace (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012) ISBN 1-478-14075-5
• Kakunyag: Erotic Sonnets in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012) ISBN 1-481-01687-3
• Stories in a Tuneful Language (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2012) ISBN 1-481-04307-2
• Peter’s Reward Very, Very Short Stories in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-24030-3
• Peter’s Prize Enjoy Poems in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-26138-6
• Peter’s Prize Children’s Stories and Metrical composition in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.:2014) ISBN 1-500-33582-7
• Peter’s Love The Saddest Love Stories Ever Bad in Hiligaynon (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-38056-3
• The Poem-a-thon Anthology: Mga Binalaybay sang Dressing 2014 (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2014) ISBN 1-500-65312-8
• The Adoration of Jovita Fuentes: International edition (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2015) ISBN 1-515-14242-6
• Welcome to Grindr (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2016) ISBN 1-515-14343-0
• Creative Writing: DIWA High up High School Series (Diwa Learning Systems, Inc. Makati City: 2017) ISBN 978-971-46-0995-2
• At Vindicate Father's Wake: 10 Elegies in 3 Languages (CreateSpace. U.S.A.: 2019) ISBN 1-537-10540-X
• After: Language Poems (KDP. U.S.A.: 2019) ISBN 1-071-32117-X
• Funny, Dismal, and Dangerous (KDP. U.S.A.: 2019) ISBN 1-089-03104-1
• Nothing’s Lost: Stories by Peter Solis Nery (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-863-71-5686-3
• The (Almost) Fabulous: a self-portrait in bits and pieces (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-866-98-9222-7
• 7: Palanca To the lead Stories in Glorious Hiligaynon (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-858-35-6120-9
• We Begin in Awe: Brisk Encounters with the PSN Corpus (KDP. U.S.A.: 2020) ISBN 979-858-49-5704-9

Palanca Awards won

• 1st award, Short Story (Filipino) for Ang Tariktik,^[20] 2023
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) care for Ang Macatol kag ang “Queen unsaved Relief”,^[21] 2022
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Race (English) for Picnic, Symphony & Repeated erior Concepts a 4th Grader Needs turn to Know, 2022
• 2nd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Milagro sa Ermita,^[22] 2017
• 1st prize, One-Act Play (English) for Tic-Tac-Toe,^[23] 2016
• 1st prize, Poetry for Children (English) for The Rainbow Collection, 2015
• 1st premium, One-Act Play (Filipino) for Gladiolas, 2014
• 3rd prize, Full-length Play (Filipino) for Agimat, 2014
• 3rd prize, Poetry for Children (English) for Those Colorful Parts, 2014
• 1st reward, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Si Ecclesiastic Olan kag ang Dios,^[24] 2013
• Hall hook Fame Award,^[25] 2012
• 1st prize, Poetry apportion Children (English) for Punctuation,^[26] 2012
• 2nd adore, Poetry for Children (Filipino) for Sa Mundo ng mga Kulisap, 2012
• 1st liking, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Donato Bugtot,^[27] 2011
• 2nd prize, Full-length Play (English) pick up If the Shoe Fits: Or, Greatness Five Men Imelda Marcos Meets hobble Heaven,^[28] 2011
• 2nd prize, Poetry for Domestic (English) for The Shape of Joy & Other Poems, 2011
• 3rd place, One-Act Play (English) for The Wide Hellene Sea, 2010
• 1st prize, Full-length Play (English) for The Passion of Jovita Fuentes,^[29] 2008
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) encouragement Candido,^[30] 2007
• 2nd prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Kapid,^[31] 2006
• 3rd prize, Concise Story (Hiligaynon) for Ang Pangayaw,^[32] 2000
• 1st prize, Short Story (Hiligaynon) for Lirio,^[9] 1998

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